Showing posts with label michelina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label michelina. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2009

My food is making me uncomfortable.

I return! Dallas was great. Had a fantastic time. I only ate one microwaveable thing while I was there. Huzzah Breakfast Burritos! I didn't take any pictures because I was lazy and hungry. But now that I am back we've got a big entry for today because I was a fatty and ate two meals today (one at two and one at five. What?! They were tiny. And I was hungry!). So lets jump into the first meal of the week!


Yes. I had a craving for more italian today. "REAL CHEESE" by our favorite Italian Mama. She's going to feed me. And I'm going to like it. Before we move onto the picture, let me justify myself. The batteries in my camera are dying and like to turn my camera off at a moments notice. I have been flipping the batteries around and using some other ones in other devices to get them to work. So some of these pictures may not be the best because I was hurrying before it died for real real on me. And we have 3 meals to cover today.


OH GOD! OK, we all know Michelina's love of red sauce, but no more flashes when I take pictures of this stuff. It looks like my ravioli it is covered in blood. With fresh Italian herbs!

It was really good. I wish there was more. I, of course, used a piece of bread to scoop up all the extra sauce. Cause its so good. Nom.

So after a few more hours of work, my stomach revolted and said, "FEEEEED MEEEE!" I had to listen. Cause then the hunger pains started on. So I dug through the freezer and decided that I would give you guys another Michelina. We gotta save the rest of these for another day, cause they are all too awesome.


This is only going to end in tears. The potatoes have smiley faces guys. SMILEY FACES! Who thought that was a good idea?


5 tiny chicken "fritters"?! Boooo, Mama you suck sometimes. They are just staring at me. And smiling. They think they are so cool those french fries. This picture is a little too dark. Lets throw the flash on and see what they look like.


...!!! Demon French Fries!!!

The chicken fritters are the exact same as the "Chicken Littles." The french fried Smiledemons were ok. I liked to pull a "Animal Cracker" on them. Ya know, eating the smiles off first and then the eyes. Don't act like you dont know what I'm talking about. But still, covering them in ketchup made me feel like a serial killer...

So that was my fatty lunch today. It was pretty decent. Mama delivered. She usually does.

The Boyfriend also wanted to share his lunch today, because he made me jealous.


Sorry for my giant shadow. Battey light was flashing at me. Anywho, here was matt's lunch. It took 9 minutes to microwave. And it smelled SO! GOOD!


The enchilada looks special. For those curious The Boyfriend said it was "Really good." Not just good. Really good. He mmm'd and yum'd and nom'd the entire time. I was jealous. Stupid Smileydemons.

So that is all for today! I hope everyone enjoyed this giant entry. Tomorrow should be fun. Until next time!

Happy Microwaving!

-Mitchell-

Sunday, October 18, 2009

The Sky is Falling!!!

Welcome back everyone. So far it looks like we are gaining a couple of watchers, and that is awesome. I'm glad to see everyone is enjoying my frozen adventures. So lets move right to it and take a look at what is for lunch today.


Why its old Mama Michelina. Did anyone else catch the "Let Mama Feed You!" slogan up at the top of the box? Yes Mama Feed meee! I am so hungry and poor! Will I be hungry two hours later? Probably. But hey, its still "food" right? Right guys?

Today's lunch is, "Chicken Littles". What a sweet innocent name for them. It makes me wonder if these are just small baby chicks that were covered in seasoning and then deep fried and frozen for my pleasure. Lets take another look at the presentation on the box. Someone took a lot of time to stack those little, as they are called on the box, "Chicken Fritters" and french fries together so expertly. What confuses me the most is that fork. Who eats "Chicken Fritters" and french fries with a freaking fork. That's ridiculous. Just slop on some ketchup and dive right in, fingers first.

I will say that Michelina is a master of packaging. Trying to rip into this thing was hell. Michelina has a fancy little tab on the side that says "Pull Here!" So you do, and all you get is a little sliver of paper. You try again, a little more paper. Next thing you know you are literally clawing at these things to get to the little treasures.

After much ripped paper I finally reached them. Now the directions had top options for these fellas, 1) Bake, 2) Microwave. And being the trooper I am (and not having enough time on my break to preheat the oven), I decided to just microwave them. The directions also point out to put some paper towels below them, but I am poor and out of paper towels (Come on guys, I am eating 95 cent meals for lunch). So we'll just have to see how they do without the paper towels...


At least its not swimming in marinara sauce. Note the moisture that surrounds them on the plate. I imagine that this was suppose to be taken care of by the paper towels....Now believe it or not, these actually were not as bad as you would think. The "Chicken Littles" were actually very tastey. I wish I could have made a trade for more chicken less french fries. Anyone that has EVER had to deal with frozen french fries...you know what I'm talking about. Floppy constancy but that weird "I might not be a potato" texture on the inside. I did try them without ketchup, and the chickens were ok...the french fries *shiver* they just have a freaky taste to me. So smothering them in ketchup seems to help. But I'm just a ketchup fiend. I eat steak with ketchup on it. I know. I'm awful.

After I sucked down my lunch, my boyfriend decided he was going to try and bake these little guys and see if they were any better. Well he wouldn't try any of mine, which means I couldn't try any of his. But he did artfully arrange them like the box has it and took a lovely picture for us all.


"THEY MUST HAVE USED TINY PLATES!" (please take your time now to scroll up and look at the box art once more...I'll give you a minute.....la la la....you look? Yea. Smallest. Plate. Ever.) That is what I heard screaming from the kitchen while he set this up. I also love how he drenched it in salt. When asked how they were he replied "Good." he's so simple :)

Anywho that is all for today! We are running low on food (Pay Day! So close yet so far!), so I might be eating microwaved food again tonight. If that is the case, you bet your butt you'll be seeing another entry.

Happy Microwaving!

-Mitchell-

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Welcome!

So lets get down to business. A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I decided to start a diet together, being that we are both lazy and don't like to cook usually, we have vested most of our lunch time into microwaveable meals. The cheaper, the better. So for lunch everyday I have myself a delicious microwaveable lean-something-or-other.

I began to notice that the pictures on the boxes are awfully wrong about how the food usually looks, and voila! The Blog was born. Lets get started with today's lunch.





Michelina's! One of my most favorite treasures in the world. Only 95 cents right now at our local grocery store. How could you not love these? I have never tried the mannicotti. I am actually more of a frozen pizza kind of guy. But anything that proclaims in all caps "REAL CHEESE!" gets a thumbs up in my book.

Let me tell you what, microwaving the bad boy was like sitting in an Italian kitchen...ok maybe not really, but it sure smelled delicious. I was hopeful for my fluffy pasta creation. After letting it cool I ripped the lid off and received my just reward.




Hm. Not exactly as wonderful as I expected. The oozing cheese into the sauce made me a tad nervous, and the actually mannicotti was just SWIMMING in marinara sauce.

I will say, though, that it was actually VERY good. The cheese was very fluffy and the sauce was great. If you do manage to pick up one of these little fellas, I recommend having a slice of bread ready. You don't want all that sauce to go to waste (its all totally included in the calorie count, and a little bit of bread never killed anyone...unless they had a wheat allergy)

Since its the first post, I suppose I can give everyone the very first pictures I took, which inspired the blog all together.



Its our good old friend Michelina again! Another 95 cent lean meal. And look! "REAL CHEESE!" This looks promising. Look at how the pasta noodles of this treat just wave at you like "Hello! I am delicious, cheap and low calorie!" and the cheese on top looks like it will just melt into your mouth. With an obvious Italian Woman printed on the front, how could this "Five (REAL) Cheese Lasagna" not fulfill your fatty pasta desires.



Michelina really loves Marinara, like a lot. Like I think when she came up with these she decided to just grab a hose and get to work. The "REAL CHEESE" is very scarce. I would go back and ask for, "More please" but I have a feeling Michelina was give me a nice back hand and tell me to shut up and enjoy what I was given. Starving children in Africa would kill for pasta swimming in red sauce! Actually I think my boyfriend told me that a few days ago...

So there you have it! The first of, hopefully, many microwaveable meals gone terrible wrong. Come back tomorrow and we'll see what my freezer has to offer!

-Mitchell-